Ifs And Quotes (page 160)

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• prayer
• soul
• she

if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing Khalil Gibran

• freedom
• may
• dumb

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. George Washington

• stupid
• reading
• world

If you are mesmerized by televised stupidity, and don't get to hear or read stories about your world, you can be fooled into thinking that the world isn't miraculous--and it is. Anne Lamott

• history
• world
• dragon

And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history? If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons. George R. R. Martin

• nature
• work
• evening

If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poor would not know how to use so much leisure. In America men often work long hours even when they are well off; such men, naturally, are indignant at the idea of leisure for wage-earners, except as the grim punishment of unemployment; in fact, they... Bertrand Russell

• love
• shine
• good thoughts

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. Roald Dahl

• heart
• die
• forever

If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled? Jodi Picoult

• political
• going
• won

If fiction and politics ever really do become interchangeable, I'm going to kill myself, because I won't know what else to do Stephen King

• consider
• little
• mother

If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do. Anne Bronte

• look
• words
• logic

If grass grows and withers, it can only mean that it is part of a greater thing, which is even more real; not that the grass is less real than it looks. St. Thomas (Aquinas) has a really logical right to say, in the words of the modern mystic, A. E.: "I begin by the grass to be bound again to the Lord. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• god
• pain
• world

If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice? George R. R. Martin

• child
• wept
• want

If you've never wept and want to, have a child. David Foster Wallace

• you me
• killing
• arms

If I kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed. Joss Whedon

• moments
• comforting
• she

If only she were a boy, speeding in khaki by Carol's side to the western front! She had wished that in a burst of romance when Jem had gone, without perhaps, meaning it. She meant it now. There were moments when waiting at home, in safety and comfort, seemed an unendurable thing. L. M. Montgomery

• heart
• hearted
• my heart

and if my heart isn’t in my mouth it’s because it knows its place Phyllis Gotlieb